Quotes About Grace

Clara rose with exaggerated calm. She took Jane in her arms and felt the old body creak back into place. Then she said a little prayer of thanks to the gods that give grace. The grace to cry and the grace to watch.

The vast majority of troubled people don't get it. The fault is here, but so is the solution. That's the grace.

Ring the bells that still can ring, Forget your perfect offering, There's a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Where there is love, there is courage Where there is courage, there is peace Where there is peace, there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

Then I see you, Standing under a spire of pale blue larkspur, With a basket of roses on your arm. You are cool, like silver, And you smile. I think the Canterbury bells are playing little tunes.

If we thought of life as a gift, we might not demand nearly as much from it. And if we lived more graciously, giving of ourselves more freely to the well-being of others, many of our personal concerns would disappear, and life would become easier for all.

Earth's noblest thing -- a woman perfected.

They are vulgar and dirty-minded and alien to grace, and I would not, if I could -- which I hasten to say I cannot -- cross their obscenities with a wit which is foreign to them and gild their futilities with the glamour which by birth and breeding and performance they do not possess.

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

The world just goes along. Nothing much matters, you know? I mean really matters. but then sometimes, just for a second, you get this grace, this belief that it does matter, a whole lot.

Nada importa mucho, ¿no? Me refiero a importar de verdad. Sin embargo a veces de pronto, durante apenas un segundo, se te concede la gracia de creer que sí, que importa muchísimo. (Del cuento Perdidos)

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

God forgives us, as—when—we forgive them who injure us—and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew—but we never know—we never reach the end of understanding—the understanding of God—the mystery of his love...

Whatsoever thing confronted her, whatsoever problem encountered her, whatsoever manners became her in novel situations, she understood in a moment. She solved the problem, she assumed the manners, she spoke and acted as the need of the moment required." Andrew Lang, "The Maid of France."

Divine grace is the power of chance beclouded with additional mystery. … Religion denies, repudiates chance, making everything dependent on God, explaining everything by means of him; … the divine will … determines or predestines some to evil and misery, others to good and happiness, has not a single positive characteristic to distinguish it from the power of chance. The mystery of the election of grace is thus the mystery of chance.

The Lord turned water into wine. All I'm suggesting is a trip to the grocery store.

And I thought—not for the first time—that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.

FREEDOM IS THE FRAGILE NECK of a daffodil, after the longest of winters. It's the sound of your voice, without anyone drowning you out. It's having the grace to say yes, and more important, the right to say no. At the heart of freedom, hope beats: a pulse of possibility.

Finding God's grace wasn't like locating missing keys or the forgotten name of a 1940s pinup girl – it was more of a feeling: the sun breaking through an overcast morning, the softest bed sinking under your weight. And, of course, you couldn't find God's grace unless you admitted you were lost.

the mercy of their good graces.

What power has love but forgiveness? In other words by its intervention what has been done can be undone. What good is it otherwise? —William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower

makes a family a family isn't doing everything right all the time but, instead, giving a second chance to the people you love who do things wrong.